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Originally Posted by denphone
l wonder if Old Boy can give us a figure on what he thinks is acceptable in terms of Covid deaths and a price worth paying according to him to help the economy.
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I'd be more curious if he could quantify what economic growth he expects to see as 17 million plus people are either shielded, being risk adverse and continue working from home.
The nature of capitalist enterprise isn't to have thousands of businesses running up huge profits able to tolerate such a drop in demand. These businesses close - employees end up on benefits and Government picks up the tab with long term unemployment. The aim of furlough is to plug the gap for these viable businesses and their employees. Yet I'm the anarchist here for trying to protect small business!